Colonial Legacies and Global Inequalities in the Anglo-Caribbean - Decolonization and Social Worlds by Meta Cramer Hardcover

About the Book

This book examines how Anglo-Caribbean scholars navigate global inequalities and colonial legacies in their research and career-making. It offers an empirical and practice-based approach to global asymmetries in academia.

Book Synopsis

In the face of enduring global inequalities and colonial legacies, social scientists in the Anglo-Caribbean navigate complex challenges in their research and career-making.

This book reveals how academics in the Global South negotiate global asymmetries in their daily work. Through fieldwork and interviews with senior scholars, the author explores how Anglo-Caribbean social scientists creatively work towards a regional science system. The book emphasizes the creativity and collective action of scholarly communities.

This work is essential for rethinking global entanglements in academia and working towards critical perspectives on social science knowledge production.

Review Quotes

'A splendid study of how social science is made in the global South, and original thinking about intellectual dependence and negotiation.' Raewyn Connell, Professor Emerita, University of Sydney

'Equipped with robust empirical fieldwork in the Anglo-Caribbean, Cramer undertakes a critical reading of Decolonial sociology focusing on the asymmetries in the circulation of knowledge.' Fernanda Beigel, CONICET (The National Scientific and Technical Research Council) and National University of Cuyo

'A rigorous empirical analysis that becomes an original theoretical contribution for anyone interested in the production and circulation of knowledge in contexts of profound and enduring epistemic asymmetries.' Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Metropolitan Autonomous University

'A rigorous empirical analysis that becomes an original theoretical contribution for anyone interested in the production and circulation of knowledge in contexts of profound and enduring epistemic asymmetries.' Leandro Rodriguez Medina, Metropolitan Autonomous University

'A splendid study of how social science is made in the global South, and original thinking about intellectual dependence and negotiation.' Raewyn Connell, Professor Emerita, University of Sydney

'Equipped with robust empirical fieldwork in the Anglo-Caribbean, Cramer undertakes a critical reading of Decolonial sociology focusing on the asymmetries in the circulation of knowledge.' Fernanda Beigel, CONICET (The National Scientific and Technical Research Council) and National University of Cuyo

About the Author

Meta Cramer is Senior Researcher in Sociology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.